As a designer I can always use more Photoshop brushes in my arsenal. I create a lot of the brushes I need myself, but there’s a lot of great sets available online for free. This post features over 500 Photoshop smoke brushes ! These brushes can be used to add some realism to a website […]

Text effects are used in almost everything we see: whether it a simple inner or drop shadow, a subtle gradient, or a full-blown illustrated header. Below we have a selection of thirty great tutorials from across the design community, ready for you to follow and pick up tons of new techniques. You’ll be a text-effect […]

In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a printer icon, suitable for both the web and print. We’re going to be basing the icon on a Canon printer/scanner I use on a daily basis, the MP610. We’re going to be creating this icon in Photoshop – although it won’t be fully scaleable, we’ll be […]

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a double-sided business card that features Bokeh and abstract effects. We’ll also create many different color schemes for it. So, let’s get started! Final Image Preview Here’s a preview of the front side, click the image to enlarge And here’s how the back side […]

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create a chocolate-looking website layout. As we go through the different steps, we’ll deal with many techniques, some big typography, wood texturing, and so on. I hope you like this tutorial! Before we get started let’s have a look at what we’ll be creating: Tutorial Details Program: Adobe […]

You don’t have to be a professional photographer and have thousands of dollars worth of equipment to have a lovely collection of photographs in your album or on your Flickr account; especially if you learn some techniques or download some Photoshop actions from this post! If you have Photoshop (or something similar) editing your dull […]

This post is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts. You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot. Designing a great logo is no easy task. It’s something people will remember, something that tells a story. In fact, your logo is […]

Combining Illustrator and Photoshop can produce some dramatic and intense effects. Illustrator has the powers (and tools) to easily create abstract shapes, whereas in Photoshop, although possible, this can take up a lot more of your time. In this tutorial we will be creating abstract shapes using the Pen Tool and Shape Tools in Illustrator […]